PowerPC（英语：Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC – Performance Computing，有时简称PPC）是一种精简指令集（RISC）架构的中央处理器（CPU），其基本的设计源自IBM的POWER（Performance Optimized With Enhanced RISC；《IBM Connect电子报》2007年8月号译为「增强RISC性能优化」）架构。POWER是1991年，Apple、IBM、Motorola组成的AIM联盟所发展出的微处理器架构。PowerPC是整个AIM联盟平台的一部分，并且是到目前为止唯一的一部分。但苹果电脑自2005年起，将旗下电脑产品转用Intel CPU。

PowerPC (a backronym for Performance Optimization With Enhanced RISC – Performance Computing, sometimes abbreviated as PPC) is a RISC instruction set architecture created by the 1991 Apple–IBM–Motorola alliance, known as AIM. PowerPC, as an evolving instruction set, has since 2006 been named Power ISA, while the old name naturally lives on, as a legacy trademark for some implementations of Power Architecture based processors, and in software package identifiers.